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01/04/2013 - La Banque africaine de développement (BAD) a pu accompagner en 2011, l’Institut National de la Statistique (INS) dans la revue et la mise à jour de sa méthodologie de mesure de la pauvreté et ce en collaboration avec la Banque mondiale. Le travail a été mené en consultation avec un comité d'experts universitaires tunisiens, des représentants des ministères et des structures publiques et d’organisations non gouvernementales.
Categories: Tunisia, Poverty Reduction, Human and Social Development
27/02/2013 - An African Development Bank team composed of experts from the Energy, Environment and Climate Change Department (ONEC) and the Sierra Leone Field Office (SLFO) completed its second green growth mission to Sierra Leone from February 4 to 8, 2013. The objective of the mission was to work further with Government counterparts on mainstreaming green growth into Sierra Leone’s Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) – (2013–2017) called “Agenda for Prosperity”, currently under preparation.
Categories: Sierra Leone, Climate Change, Environment, Poverty Reduction, Green Growth Initiative
19/02/2013 - The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group on Wednesday, February 13, in Tunis approved a 22-million euro loan to Tunisia to finance the Gafsa North Integrated Agricultural Development Project, which aims to reduce poverty in the area.
Categories: Tunisia, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Human and Social Development, Poverty Reduction
20/12/2012 - AfDB President, Donald Kaberuka, was a guest speaker at the Meeting of the Board of Governors of PTA Bank in Lusaka, Zambia, on 19 December, 2012. He was invited to provide his assessment of the global economy and Africa’s development. Although African economies are currently experiencing growth, Kaberuka guarded against hyperbole.
Categories: Zambia, Poverty Reduction
07/11/2012 - A robust structural transformation is critical to shape a country’s ability to generate a faster and more inclusive growth that is required to tackle social challenges, such as unemployment and poverty. Structural transformation driven by export is highly relevant for Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia, countries where several trade strategies and export promotion policies have been undertaken but are yet to take full advantage of their export-led growth strategies. This study considers how increasing productivity and moving up the value chain could enhance economic development in North Africa.
Categories: Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Korea, Economic & Financial Governance, Youth, Poverty Reduction, Human and Social Development
17/10/2012 - The African Development Bank Group today joined the international community in commemorating the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The occasion presents an opportunity to take stock of the progress made in achieving the objectives of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. According to the United Nations, more than one billion people are still living in poverty, deprived of their rights to food, education and health.
Categories: Poverty Reduction, Human and Social Development, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
18/05/2012 - African Development Bank President Donald Kaberuka joined U.S. President Barack Obama, several African heads of state and leaders from the public and private sector in Washington on Friday for the launch of a new initiative that aims to reduce poverty and stimulate economic growth.
Categories: United States of America, Food Production, Poverty Reduction
12/12/2011 - « Nous ne pouvons pas combattre le changement climatique en condamnant l’Afrique à la pauvreté », a déclaré le président de la Banque africaine de développement, Donald Kaberuka, présent à la Conférence des Nations unies sur le changement climatique, qui se clôt aujourd’hui à Durban, en Afrique du Sud.
Categories: South Africa, Climate Change, Poverty Reduction, Congo Basin Forest Fund, Environment
09/12/2011 - UK medical journal The Lancet recently headlined climate change as “the biggest global health threat of the 21st century.” Yet this presents a triple-win opportunity for Africa with three development agendas. With just 12.3 percent of the world’s population but 25 percent of the global disease burden, harnessing health and poverty reduction goals to climate-change mitigation and adaptation strategies makes financial and logistical sense.
Categories: South Africa, Climate Change, Health, Poverty Reduction, Human and Social Development, Environment
01/12/2011 - The low absolute poverty rate in North African countries is often used to demonstrate the strengths of the economic models of these countries. However, measuring poverty at the level of the nation often masks important variations in regional poverty rates.
Categories: Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania, Poverty Reduction
